A Louisiana appellate panel on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a suit accusing two doctors of misdiagnosing a man’s spinal inflammation that led to an infection and heart surgery, saying deposition testimony given by a different doctor who later treated the patient failed to establish the proper standard of care.

An Oklahoma federal judge ordered the Indian Health Service on Wednesday to give discovery responses in a $115 million negligence suit from parents who claim their newborn son suffered brain damage after he was delivered at a Chickasaw Nation hospital.

The family of a man treated at the Washington D.C. Veteran Affairs Medical Center hit the U.S. government with a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday, claiming that the failure of the patient's doctors to prescribe the anticoagulants called for in his postoperative plan led to his death.

A Texas federal judge ruled Monday in favor of the federal government following a bench trial over a Veterans Affairs patient’s suicide, saying the evidence did not support a finding that a psychiatrist’s alleged failure to seek an emergency detention order contributed to the U.S. Army veteran’s death.

A Maryland jury determined that a gynecologist negligently treated a woman after a hysterectomy that showed possible signs of cancer and awarded her $1 million, an amount that was later reduced pursuant to state caps on noneconomic damages, the patient’s attorney said Tuesday.

The New Jersey Appellate Division on Tuesday revived a colonoscopy patient’s medical malpractice suit that was tossed over a purportedly unqualified expert witness, ruling that the dismissing judge improperly deferred to a previous judge’s ruling on the issue.

A Houston anesthesiologist who claims she was wrongfully terminated by Memorial Hermann Health System has asked the Texas Supreme Court to review a ruling that threw out the majority of her claims against the hospital under a state free speech law.

Touted as the largest medical malpractice verdict in state history, a Rhode Island jury has awarded a man $61.6 million in a suit accusing two doctors and a hospital of providing negligent treatment that caused the patient’s right leg to be amputated, his attorney said Monday.

A nursing home’s bid for arbitration in a suit alleging negligence was denied on Friday by a Kentucky Court of Appeals panel, saying the power of attorney given to the patient’s sister did not authorize her to execute an arbitration agreement.

An Arkansas federal judge has opted to send a negligence suit against the Cancer Treatment Centers of America to Oklahoma, ruling that even though the patient bringing the suit is an Arkansas resident, the alleged mistreatment and most of the witnesses are located over the border.

A New York state court judge has decided to throw out a patient’s claims against Nassau University Medical Center, but ruled that his case against another Long Island university hospital could move forward, saying the patient had made a reasonable argument that the hospital contributed to his permanent left-eye blindness.

A longshore mutual insurance company on Thursday lost its suit against a hospital that performed surgery on one of its member’s workers who then died, with the California federal court saying an insurer doesn’t have standing to bring wrongful death claims.

A New York state appeals court has ruled that a Long Island medical center must turn over a contract with the founder of an anesthesia practice in a suit brought by a patient who claims his anesthesia was bungled, overturning a lower court order protecting the document from discovery.

A Delaware state judge on Thursday tossed medical negligence claims against a radiologist because the family of a patient who died sent a notice that they intended to sue to the wrong place, allowing the statute of limitations to expire.

A North Carolina man agreed Thursday to drop for the time being his $3 million medical malpractice suit in Virginia federal court in which he had accused a doctor of failing to properly treat a foot injury leading to amputation of several toes, allowing the case to be dismissed without prejudice.

The Indian Health Service and the Chickasaw National Medical Center told an Oklahoma federal court in three separate filings this week that they are doing their best to respond to the flood of requests made by parents alleging they suffered expenses due to their child’s brain injury suffered at the center.

In December 2015, the parts of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning proportionality in discovery were amended. The amendments changed the language defining the scope of relevance, but substantively, this remains the same as it has been for nearly 40 years, says Max Kennerly of Kennerly Loutey LLC.

For outside counsel, oftentimes efficiency and responsiveness collide with security measures as clients are increasingly requiring their law firms to comply with third-party risk management programs. To meet these challenges, law firms are focusing more on the roles of chief privacy officer and chief information security officer, says Phyllis Sumner, chief privacy officer for King & Spalding LLP.

During the jury selection process, many times parties submit proposed voir dire questions, but the court ultimately chooses the questions to be asked and does all of the questioning of the jury panel. While this approach is judicially efficient, rarely do we learn anything meaningful from the panel members, say Lisa Blue of Baron and Blue and Robert Hirschhorn of Cathy E. Bennett & Associates.

As law firms hold sensitive information not only related to the firm but to the firm’s clients, an insider threat — whether it's a "bad actor employee" or inadvertent activity — poses a particular concern. There are steps that privacy officers can initiate to help minimize these threats, says Patricia Wagner, chief privacy officer for Epstein Becker Green.

As the role of law firm chief privacy officer becomes more prevalent and expansive, many CPOs are finding themselves in the midst of a delicate balancing act — weighing compliance with government regulations and client requirements on one side with the needs of firm business on the other, says Kristin Jones, chief privacy officer for Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP.

New mobile computing tools — both hardware and applications — are changing the technology paradigm for legal practitioners. In particular, the combination of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, the Apple Pencil and the LiquidText annotation app can revolutionize both trial preparation and courtroom litigating, says attorney Paul Kiesel, in his latest review of tech trends.

To understand the role of the law firm chief privacy officer — and why that person ought to be a lawyer — it’s important to distinguish the role they fill from that of the chief information security officer, says Mark McCreary, chief privacy officer for Fox Rothschild LLP.

One growing trend is for clients to enter into alternative fee arrangements in which one law firm represents multiple parties who “share” fees and costs in a related matter. This way parties can more efficiently manage a matter and reduce their individual legal fees. But joint representation is not without its own risks and challenges, say attorneys with WilmerHale.

Legal incubators serve as an important bridge to practice and a crucial step toward aligning the incentives of new lawyers with the needs of their clients. They may even pose a threat to the traditional law school model itself, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, says Martin Pritikin, dean of Concord Law School at Kaplan University.